The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

Ithaca [New York]: Cornell University Press, 1969. xvi, 420 pages; 24 cm. Very tight clean copy lackign jacket; minor spotting to board outer edges. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780801405013, 9780801495564

"The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta."--WikipediaContents: The Spartan alliance. The origins of the Athenian empire. Sparta after the Persian war. Athens after the Persian war. The war in Greece. The crisis in the Aegean. The end of the war. Athenian politics: the victory of Pericles. Athens and the West: the foundation of Thurii. The Samian rebellion. The consolidation of the empire. Athenian politics on the eve of the war. Epidamnus. Corcyra. Megara. Potidaea. Sparta. Athens. The causes of the war. Thucydides and the inevitability of the war. Appendix A: The willingness of the members of the delian league to accept Athenian leadership. Appendix B: The historicity of Diodorus' account of the Spartan assembly in 475. Appendix C: Chronology of events between ca. 470-453. Appendix D: Reconstruction the Athenian tribute lists. Appendix E: The papyrus decree. Appendix F: The foundation of Thurii. Appendix G: Athenian actions in the West between the wars. Appendix H: Athenian treatment of Byzantium. Appendix I: The date of Pericles' pontic expedition. Appendix J: The site and date of brea. Appendix K: The date of the battle of Potidaea.